Friday, January 13, 2012

The line between pleasure and pain!













Images above: On the road through the Flinders Ranges, South Australia.

Related sites to the Spatialworlds project
Spatialworlds website
21st Century Geography Google Group
Australian Geography Teachers' Association website
'Towards a National Geography Curriculum' project website
Geography Teachers' Association of South Australia website
Email contact
malcolm.mcinerney@gmail.com

Where am I??
Adelaide, Australia: S: 34º 55' E: 138º 36'

Presentations to develop visual literacy in geography

“The wise man fears the serene sky, but when a storm comes he walks on the waves and challenges the wind” Confucius quotes

This posting was initiated by viewing the Slideshare collection called the Nubia Group. After checking out the Slideshare resource go to the Nubia groups blogpsot to view even more presentations.

The collection is a broad selection of things we may consider beautiful and fascinating about living in our world and things which cause pain to humanity. I have just selected the PowerPoints from the collection which may be of use to the geography classroom (I am sure there are many more) and recommend you to go through the rich collection of images and commentary contained within. A great resource for visual literacy work in the classroom. While about it go and have look at other geography relevant collections on Slideshare – an amazing resource to help create lessons and for student projects etc.


Pleasure ??????????

Earth art

From the sky Part 1

From the sky Part 2

Digital world – great images

Around the World

Children of the World

Brazil carnival

Chinese festivals

The Haj

Christmas across the globe

Ramadan
http://www.slideshare.net/Nubiagroup/observing-ramadan
http://www.slideshare.net/Nubiagroup/observing-ramadan-part2
http://www.slideshare.net/Nubiagroup/observing-ramadan-part3

Chinese Gods

Beauty of Egypt

Indian wedding

Iceland landscapes

Amazing landscapes

Urban colours

Amazing shots from far ways
http://www.slideshare.net/Nubiagroup/amazing-shots-from-far-away-2
http://www.slideshare.net/Nubiagroup/amazing-shots-from-far-away

Nature photography

Great migrations

Beauty of Burma

Beauty of Norway

Beauty of Canada

Beauty of Scotland

Beauty of Ireland

Beauty of Dubai

Beauty of New Zealand

Afghanistan picture portrait

Scenes from China

Beauty of the Philippines

Beauty of China

Egypt
http://www.slideshare.net/Nubiagroup/egypte-11
http://www.slideshare.net/Nubiagroup/the-nile-river-egypt-2492855

Around the world in images

Amazing World

Pakistan portraits

Great images

India portrait

People of the World
http://www.slideshare.net/Nubiagroup/eric-lafforgue-photographer-part2
http://www.slideshare.net/Nubiagroup/eric-lafforgue-photographer-part1

Nomads of Tibet


Pain??????????

Save the Children

Mississippi floods 2011

Brazil floods 2011

Flood in Pakistan
http://www.slideshare.net/Nubiagroup/flood-in-pakistan-part-12
http://www.slideshare.net/Nubiagroup/flood-in-pakistan-part-11eid-in-refugee-camps
http://www.slideshare.net/Nubiagroup/flood-in-pakistan-part02
http://www.slideshare.net/Nubiagroup/flood-in-pakistan-2010

Water

Japan weeks after the Tsunami 2011
http://www.slideshare.net/Nubiagroup/japan-one-week-later2011-march-18
http://www.slideshare.net/Nubiagroup/japan-two-weeks-later-2011march-25
http://www.slideshare.net/Nubiagroup/japan-earthquake-aftermath-2011-march13

Japan earthquake 2011

Atomic fallout: Japan 2011
http://www.slideshare.net/Nubiagroup/japan-alarm-over-atomic-crisismarch-16
http://www.slideshare.net/Nubiagroup/nuclear-disaster-threat-looms-over-japan-2011-march14

New Zealand earthquake 2011

China flooding 2011

Russian wildfires 2010

China landslides 2010

Pakistan in need –Aid
http://www.slideshare.net/Nubiagroup/flood-in-pakistan-part4
http://www.slideshare.net/Nubiagroup/pakistan-in-need-part-9
http://www.slideshare.net/Nubiagroup/flood-in-pakistan-part-10angelina-jolie
http://www.slideshare.net/Nubiagroup/flood-emergency-in-pakistan-is-not-over

Libya unrest 2011
http://www.slideshare.net/Nubiagroup/libya-unrest-2011march-2
http://www.slideshare.net/Nubiagroup/libya-massive-exode-and-un-sanctions
http://www.slideshare.net/Nubiagroup/libya-on-the-edge

Middle East violence

Crisis in Yemen

Haiti earthquake – two years on

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Rich information: Real time and spatial
















Left image:Crossing the bridge at going home time.
Right image: Cityscape from a room above, Sydney.

Related sites to the Spatialworlds project
Spatialworlds website
21st Century Geography Google Group
Australian Geography Teachers' Association website
'Towards a National Geography Curriculum' project website
Geography Teachers' Association of South Australia website
Email contact
manning@chariot.net.au

Where am I??
Adelaide, Australia: S: 34º 55' E: 138º 36'



A new year welcome to Spatialworlds with this amazing real time spatial information site from Hungary. A great site of rich spatial information to start the Spatialworlds year.

Here is an amazing Emergency and Disaster Information site from Budapest, Hungary with the philosophy

"Nothing happens unexpectedly, everything has an indication,
we just have to observe the connections."


A philosophy that truly reflects the geographical concept of interconnection.

The Hungarian National Association of Radio Distress-Signalling and Infocommunications (RSOE) operates the Emergency and Disaster Information Service (EDIS) within the frame of its own website which has the objective to monitor and document all the events on the Earth which may cause disaster or emergency. The service uses the speed and the data spectrum of the internet to gather information. They monitor and process several foreign organisation's data to get quick and certified information.

The EDIS website operated together by the General-Directorate of National Disaster Management (OKF) and RSOE, in co-operation with the Crisis Management Centre of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, provides useful information regarding emergency situations and their prevention. Extraordinary events happening in Hungary, Europe and other areas of the World are being monitored in 24 hours per day. All events processed by RSOE EDIS are displayed near real time - for the sake of international compatibility - according to the CAP protocol on a secure website.

To ensure clear transparency all events are categorized separately in the RSS,XML, CAP directory (e.g. earthquake, fire, flood, landslide, nuclear event, tornado, volcano). RSOE EDIS also contributes in dissemination of the CAP protocol in Hungary.

Beside the official information, with the help of special programs nearly 9-1000 internet press publications are monitored and the publication containing predefined keywords are processed. However, these "news" cannot be considered as official and reliable information, but many times critical information is gathered from the internet press. They screen the incoming information and store in a central database sorted by category.

If the world was 100 people

This excellent video, one of my favourites to get the message across to students re: the nature and dimensions of human geography, has been updated and is up on YouTube for classroom use.

Educational think piece

An older but goody, always worth another look.